University of Duisburg-Essen
Founded in 2003 by the merger of two universities in the cities Duisburg and Essen, the UDE is one of the youngest universities in Germany. Located at the heart of the Ruhr metropolis, the university is like the region: dynamic, ambitious, and ever-changing. In the eleven faculties and four interdisciplinary research clusters – Nanosciences, Biomedical Sciences, Urban Systems, and Transformation of Contemporary Societies – the scientists develop ideas with a future. The university deliberately interlocks research and teaching as much as possible to promote exchange of knowledge and perspectives.
At the two campuses at Duisburg and Essen and at the university hospital, you meet 42,000 students from more than 130 countries. The university embraces diversity and strongly supports exchange and collaboration, both regionally – as with the neighbouring universities in the University Alliance Ruhr – and worldwide, as in the network Aurora, and with more than 250 Erasmus partner universities.
At the University of Duisburg-Essen, Petra Günther is the institutional coordinator for Aurora: petra.guenther@uni-due.de
